They had fertile soil for growing wheat, thus making bread their main export. So they were nicknamed as the “Breadbasket colonies”
Having great interest in the military have helped in
preserving the Abbasids empire as having a military will be able to protect the
empire and in the same time, it will extend and make the empire much bigger and
much more powerful.
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Merchant families that ruled Italian city-states established: B. their own armies.
In the Renaissance epoch, Italy was formed by many city-states with powerful people as the rulers. They were in conflict with each other quite often. That is why these cities had their own armies to protect their merchant, their political interests and their cultural influence in the region.
